Before i purchased and installed the PNY NVIDIA 9800GT, using vga moniter and regular audioInstalled kunbuntu 8.10 from dvdInstalled linuxmce from internetSetup linuxmce using static video option and the greetings video's with the lady played fine.ripped a dvd to hdplayed that dvd fine

so now drumroll, i tried to get it setup to work with my 42-inch Samsung LCD over hdmi.rebooted machine and held shiftAVWizard started, setup with DVD/HDMI 1, and HIGH video settings - OpenGL.blablaRebooted and Failed to start Xrelaunched AVWizard from commandlineChose the static overlay low video settings again. I was not happy with graphics

Went to Bestbuy and purchase the PNY NVIDIA Geforce 9800GT 1GB.Installed and still had problems.Finally edited the /boot/grub/menu.1st and added vmalloc=256MB, because i read and it seemed that the hauppauge 1600 was loading before the graphics card and stealing the memoryinstalled the NVIDIA 190.53 drivers thru commandline

Now the problem is video, and dvd's. open the dvd drive and pop in a movie, then it says disc loaded and the name of the movie.however when i select play from the Manage Drives or from the Video menu, it just flashes briefly and the flicker pictures keeps rollingi move the mouse and there is a big white play/pause button and mute button in bottom right corner. so i go back to the setup wizard, now the greeting video's with the lady will not play. no video's will play. spent couple hours researching online and trying stuff via commandline. NO SUCESS

So then i decide maybe i just need to reload, I select the Install Linuxmce from the DVD this time and followed the stepsmore of same problems, never got far enough to get orbiter to generate

So then i decided to reload Kubuntu 8.10 from the dvd and then do the internet installation like the first time.before i ran the linuxmce install scripts, i figured i would try to get the kubuntu installation to play a dvd first. did all of the same stepsaptitude updateaptitude dist-upgradeaptitude upgradesudo apt-get install linux-restricted-extras

tried to play dvd from mplayer and got a video out -vo error. tried most of the drivers under the preferences of mplayer and still no success.checked the nvidia server program under settings and it had all the information for my graphics card and i adjusted the overscan a little to see everything on the screen.

Also i have not been able to get any audio over the hdmi. ( i attached the spdif jumper from the mobo to the 9800gt)

i 've played with motherboard settings, i changed the audio setting to SPDIF out instead of hdmi. and tried the PEG:PCI option.I really don't know what i need to set bios options.

SO AFTER almost 2 days straight of working on this, but I'm back at square 1. Please someone have the answer or suggestions.

However i think i may have messed something up trying to get video to work earlier, when i clicked the linuxmce install link on the desktop, i got a bunch of error's, so i'm going to reinstall and then use your solution to fix the video

however still no audio.

i have a bose unit connected via optical to my tv, when i put the tv on the hdmi port for my core/md , the bose does say PCM but i cannot get any audio out

like i said before i have the spdif cable connected to the spdif + and gnd on the mobo and then it plugs into the top of my graphics card. my video card has two dvi outputs and i am connecting to hdmi with a dvi -> hdmi adapter that came with kit. It is supposed to support passthrough, however i just can't get my configuration correct between the mobo settings and the kunbuntu settings.

i think i am going to wait and try to get the audio working before i reinstall linuxmce 8.10 beta 2. if i can get it working with just kubuntu 8.10 then i should be able to fix video and audio again after kubuntu installs but before linuxmce installs. then hopefully all is good!!!!

figured out to get my dvd playing in the pluto-xine, i had to change /etc/pluto/xine.conf and set audio to none instead of auto or alsa temporarily.i looked at xine's logs and it was stopping because of audio error

DRIVER=alsa-driver-1.0.19FIRMWARE=alsa-firmware-1.0.19LIB=alsa-lib-1.0.19PLUGINS=alsa-plugins-1.0.19UTILS=alsa-utils-1.0.19TOOLS=alsa-tools-1.0.19OSS=alsa-oss-1.0.17to install 1.0.19 and then re-ran avwizard and now im getting pcm, dolby 5.1 over the hdmi…whoohoo